Director

Peter Matthews is one of South Africa's most respected film and commercials director's. He has conceptualized and directed many commercials that have received international award recognition. During his time as partner and creative head of Matthews & Charter, Ogilvy & Mather ad agency, Peter developed a passion for story-telling and directing commercials.

Peter's first feature film, "Oil on Water", was completed and released theatrically at NuMetro and Ster Kinekor cinemas nationally in October 2007. It has gone on to be awarded Best Feature Film at the Everglades International Film Festival with official nominations and selections at nine other International Festivals. The film is now in distribution world-wide.

He is in production on a documentary called "Township Yogi" and a new feature film "Zulu-Day of the Dead Moon" is planned to go into production in 2017.

Film

"The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't." - Jean-Luc Godard

"If I'd have gone to art school, or stayed in anthropology, I probably would have ended up back in film ... Mostly I just followed my inner feelings and passions ... and kept going to where it got warmer and warmer, until it finally got hot ... Everybody has talent. It's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is." - George Lucas

"I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries." - Frank Capra